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by buboard 6y ago
Media want to control the narrative , even if their advice is wrong (as was in this pandemic). So does facebook, even though it isn't willing to do any work (i.e. pay a penny) to create it. The media is also (rightfully) mad because FB
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by buboard 6y ago
i think its called "Exit vs Voice" instead of "nextplay" or whatever
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by buboard 6y ago
> filled to the brim with ads. This was the social contract of the web. You give google free content , they give you back money through adsense. Google broke it, and went overly greedy. If enough websites band together (incl. wikipedia)
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by buboard 6y ago
wikipedia is also losing editors and fact-checkers. It also degrades its image -- why would i contribute my time so that google exploits it to become richer? this is bad
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by buboard 6y ago
facebook was built and grew in php tho
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by buboard 6y ago
The story seems off (temporally) for someone who got incarcerated circa 2010. Nothing very interesting has happened to technology since then.
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by buboard 6y ago
3 tbf i have a 12 year old php game that basically prints money - the only thing i had to change was the old mysql module (which was not even buggy/unsafe - just unmaintained).
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by buboard 6y ago
where can we read the other side talking about the future? i cant remember how long since reading a future-looking piece from a leftist intellectual
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by buboard 6y ago
tourism is one part of traveling. people from highly urbanized areas tend to travel long distances more ( https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aac9d2 ) . If this density drops (due to convenient
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by buboard 6y ago
COVID is an accelerator, not an innovator Travel is the big unraveling. Tourism has ballooned since 2000 but it was no longer tourism: how many tourists even talk to locals anymore? Look at Youtube travelogues - how often do you see locals?
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by buboard 6y ago
when people talk of automation they mean replacement, not just better tools, for that has been happening since the beginning of time
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by buboard 6y ago
In the french air carrier CDG , 1,081 out of 2,300 were found infected https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_on_Charles_d...
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by buboard 6y ago
In my country, the church protested that holy gatherings won't spread COVID because it is graced by god. What these scientists are doing is on an equivalent level of medieval stupidity. It's really sad to read this , and even more
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by buboard 6y ago
bit overblown. It's not all "links", they did the redirect for the autocomplete of "binance.us" and they are correcting it. https://twitter.com/BrendanEich/status/1269313200127795201
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by buboard 6y ago
No, manually flagged
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by buboard 6y ago
Not mentioned, but you can be "rate limited", where you can post up to ~ 3 comments per hour (?not sure), else you get a "posting too fast, please slow down" message. It's keeping us trolls at bay
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by buboard 6y ago
because brave's model of allowiing direct and instant, anonymous payments and rewards from user to webmaster, threatens google's model of the web. firefox should be doing these innovations, but maybe that would irritate google
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by buboard 6y ago
What bugs me more about the EU "tech" sector is the reliance on public and EU sector money. Making "something people want" will still make you less money, you won't be able to scale it up properly, and pretty much a
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by buboard 6y ago
Another study that was using the same data was retracted from NE Journal of Medicine: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2021225
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by buboard 6y ago
And the social media security theater goes on and on
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by buboard 6y ago
Multiple satellite network projects are underway.
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by buboard 6y ago
The excess mortality rates don't lie: https://www.euromomo.eu/graphs-and-maps/#z-scores-by-country
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by buboard 6y ago
I think epidemiologists shoot themselves in the foot as a profession when they started talking about herd immunity, which is the one situation we are trying to to avoid in infections, and really the entire reason their profession exists. We
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by buboard 6y ago
That brings it probably closer to a libertarian position
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by buboard 6y ago
incidentally i think that all OSes get the defaults wrong. People don't organize split their lives by videos or pdfs, but by Project. Ideally $HOME should contain a directory for each project and nothing else. Our memory works well wit
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by buboard 6y ago
> leave early, do no work, blow off jobs, half-ass the actual sounds like specifically a work ethic problem, which is indeed an issue outside the US , Western europe, japan etc, assuming those programmers were indeed capable enough and g
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by buboard 6y ago
That would contradict the fact that so many immigrants from very different cultures work so well in the US academia and tech The one thing about culture that matters is the work ethic, which indeed is hard to reproduce in many countries, bu
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by buboard 6y ago
author is using the wage data from last decade or less it seems. It s an overinvested market and I don't think programming value is correlated with pay at all , at least judging for the overall bad quality and incredible bloat of softw
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by buboard 6y ago
on the bright side, it's now easy to compete with google
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by buboard 6y ago
Sure is. I doubt there s anyone who got depressed because their reddit karma was low. Posting an instagram selfie, however, and getting no likes -- that's tough. "Social media" is a misnomer, in reality it's skinner box

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